But once the war became unstoppable, which is to say when Saddam refused the Bush ultimatum for Saddam and his sons to leave Iraq within 72 hours, our publishers, television executives in New York pretty unanimously agreed that it was too dangerous to stay.

Romney's campaign had been hoping for a decisive victory in Iowa that would give him something called unstoppable momentum, which we have never in the history of this country seen in presidential politics, but nonetheless it's much discussed.